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Wow, this makes for fantastic reading. The ideas you're floating on job security, career capital and moats articulate something I've seen through countless hour
by _xander 6y ago
Wow, this makes for fantastic reading. The ideas you're floating on job security, career capital and moats articulate something I've seen through countless hours of LinkedIn scanning and personal experience, but packaged into digestible lessons. This is empiricism leading to radical thinking.
My only comment, in the form of a sticker warning, would be that thinking about the world purely via a lens of pragmatism (e.g. 'winner takes all', 'be mission agnostic', etc.) and performance (e.g. 'maximally optimise your career capital', etc.) can cause burnout. Or it did for me at least. This is because it can simultaneously build cynicism (cyclical negative thinking patterns) and impossible personal goals (confirming experiences of failure or struggle). The heuristic isn't worth that sacrifice, even if it leads you to the "right" answer.